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urocyonToday was pretty productive. I spent most of the afternoon doing a couple of errands and shopping. I also got my hair cut, and rather masochistically submitted again to having a good third of my eyebrows waxed off. This is still far better than yanking them out, one by one, with tweezers, particularly when I've mainly let them go wild for a couple of months. I'm certainly glad I started on the wax, after approximately 15 years of self-torture by tweezing.
My hair turned out perhaps the shortest it's ever been, but it looks good. Now I'm trying to decide if I should leave it its natural color, or dye it again over the weekend, before I leave. Ultra-short, it really does seem to work better with a bit of somewhat intense color. So I stopped in Sally's this afternoon and picked up a bottle of Miss Clairol Reddest Copper Red, which seemed like it it would be flattering. (My leftover bottle of my old favorite, Wella Black Cherry, didn't seem quite striking enough for this style; one has to be in good light, preferably sunlight, for the red-violet tones really to show up well.) I just love browsing around in Sally's, for some reason. :) I'm thinking I spotted some Palladio rice powder in that location the time before this one that I was in there--I'd had to order it before. But the boxes were plastic instead of the pretty cardboard. As long as one box has lasted me so far, it should be ages before I need to buy another; it's still nice to know it's readily available in a pinch.
I wish I'd paid by credit card (into which I've been siphoning most of my money of late) at the salon, because I wound up short on cash trying to buy things at the last shop I tried, which didn't accept plastic. (I had rather nicely cleaned out my checking account, withdrawing cash from it, earlier in the day. Very lean month, after setting aside an obscene percentage of my check as the final installment in saving for airfare.) And that shop had several things I wanted, super-cheap on clearance, and of far better quality than even the beginning price would suggest. It's not my usual style, but I did buy a lovely-in-a-cute-way pastel blue top in an extremely light knit fabric, with a pretty almost-flocked raised small white pattern--very flattering and girly, and even crocky beasts like me need girly on occasion. *g* For $6, when normally I'd expect to pay at least $20 for something similar. I should have gone ahead and gotten a gorgeous black stretch-velour top (more my style, and only $3.00 on clearance!)--I had just about enough money left to buy that one, and have a couple of dollars left. There was at least one more top and very possibly a dress (which I need badly), I'd have like to have bought. My mother suggested going back in the morning and picking up these things, and she would pay for them. (Yay, Mom! Thanks!)
At another store, I found a nice-looking (also on clearance) pair of sandals, which I also needed. There were some others I preferred the looks of, but they only went up to a size 9, and a very small 9 it was. I tend to wear a (US) 9.5 or 10, but sometimes a 9 will work--I could barely get my foot into those. The rest of the shopping was for groceries and the like.
The excuse I've been using for picking up a few items of clothing recently is the upcoming trip, but that is really just forcing the issue. (At not so great a time for finding a good selection of summery clothing, unfortunately. Most of it's reduced, at least.) My spring/summer wardrobe has gotten into a near-pitiful state. Many of the staple items don't fit properly now, and I have put off buying many clothes while I was still losing weight. A cousin of delaying purchases when my health wasn't so good, until I took off weight, I suppose. *wry smile*
Still, it was nice to get out and at least feel like I got some things accomplished today. I've been spending too much time at home lately.
My hair turned out perhaps the shortest it's ever been, but it looks good. Now I'm trying to decide if I should leave it its natural color, or dye it again over the weekend, before I leave. Ultra-short, it really does seem to work better with a bit of somewhat intense color. So I stopped in Sally's this afternoon and picked up a bottle of Miss Clairol Reddest Copper Red, which seemed like it it would be flattering. (My leftover bottle of my old favorite, Wella Black Cherry, didn't seem quite striking enough for this style; one has to be in good light, preferably sunlight, for the red-violet tones really to show up well.) I just love browsing around in Sally's, for some reason. :) I'm thinking I spotted some Palladio rice powder in that location the time before this one that I was in there--I'd had to order it before. But the boxes were plastic instead of the pretty cardboard. As long as one box has lasted me so far, it should be ages before I need to buy another; it's still nice to know it's readily available in a pinch.
I wish I'd paid by credit card (into which I've been siphoning most of my money of late) at the salon, because I wound up short on cash trying to buy things at the last shop I tried, which didn't accept plastic. (I had rather nicely cleaned out my checking account, withdrawing cash from it, earlier in the day. Very lean month, after setting aside an obscene percentage of my check as the final installment in saving for airfare.) And that shop had several things I wanted, super-cheap on clearance, and of far better quality than even the beginning price would suggest. It's not my usual style, but I did buy a lovely-in-a-cute-way pastel blue top in an extremely light knit fabric, with a pretty almost-flocked raised small white pattern--very flattering and girly, and even crocky beasts like me need girly on occasion. *g* For $6, when normally I'd expect to pay at least $20 for something similar. I should have gone ahead and gotten a gorgeous black stretch-velour top (more my style, and only $3.00 on clearance!)--I had just about enough money left to buy that one, and have a couple of dollars left. There was at least one more top and very possibly a dress (which I need badly), I'd have like to have bought. My mother suggested going back in the morning and picking up these things, and she would pay for them. (Yay, Mom! Thanks!)
At another store, I found a nice-looking (also on clearance) pair of sandals, which I also needed. There were some others I preferred the looks of, but they only went up to a size 9, and a very small 9 it was. I tend to wear a (US) 9.5 or 10, but sometimes a 9 will work--I could barely get my foot into those. The rest of the shopping was for groceries and the like.
The excuse I've been using for picking up a few items of clothing recently is the upcoming trip, but that is really just forcing the issue. (At not so great a time for finding a good selection of summery clothing, unfortunately. Most of it's reduced, at least.) My spring/summer wardrobe has gotten into a near-pitiful state. Many of the staple items don't fit properly now, and I have put off buying many clothes while I was still losing weight. A cousin of delaying purchases when my health wasn't so good, until I took off weight, I suppose. *wry smile*
Still, it was nice to get out and at least feel like I got some things accomplished today. I've been spending too much time at home lately.
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Date: 2003-07-22 09:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-24 06:23 pm (UTC)I've had my hands one checkbook or another since I was 15 (my mother was always big on "learning to manage money", and suggested a checking account), and the novelty wore off in, oh, about a week. :) Yours would have extra anachronistic value, though, and you could show all your friends the strange paper things. *g*